Author's Note: Here's the epilogue! This is the end of Nightmare Dream: Tales of Chaos. Therefore, I expect reviews. XD I don't care if they're late, but do review as soon as possible so I get to hear from you guys how you enjoyed this series as a whole. ^^ Your reviews are really what drove me on.
That brings me to now.
It has been exactly two years since my adventures in Wonderland.
Two years and I still can't forget a single detail. Two years and I still feel tied to that place. I have moments where I'll look at my hands and see them drenched in blood. I'll feel sick to my stomach. My parents ask me what's wrong. How can I tell them that the problem is while I was in Wonderland I killed two people? I can't tell them. They'd diagnose me with schizophrenia or something.
Sometimes I'll be walking home from school and hear something call my name. I'll turn around and see a floating grin but it always disappears. And I'll be sad and think of Chess. Whenever I see a boy with black hair I'll remember Terror and think how I wish I knew him better than I did. He had been kind and he had been the first one to nicely talk to me in Wonderland.
And sometimes I'll look in the mirror and see her instead of me.
Alice.
I still can't look at roses without shuddering.
I'm a senior in high school. I'm seventeen. I'm supposed to be able to get a hold of myself and move on but I can't. I just can't.
I sigh. If only I had stayed. I sit on my bed, smiling at the memory of running away from that demented rabbit, Tane. That mysterious idiotic bunny. Meeting Terror. I remember his first words to me. "You're in a bad situation, miss, did you know that?" And, ah, Chess. I sip at my tea—
Wait. I didn't get any tea for myself. Yet somehow, I am holding a teacup. Saucer and all. The tea has a taste that reminds me of autumn... the taste of dreams. Wonderland's finest, I remember Chaos telling me.
You see, Wonderland has left its mark on me. I can't do anything without accidentally adding a bit of Wonderland logic into it. And sometimes, strange things happen because of that. So I know that everything that happened there, everything I experienced, was real.
I look forward to going back someday.
The mirror in my room glimmers brightly in the sun, and I think I see a pair of silver eyes…
A/N: The official end to my first fanfic ever. Kind of sad, isn't it? But it was so fun. Please remember to review, guys. I love them. They make me happy. VERY happy. =] And remember to check out Outcasts of Reality, my new Alice in Wonderland fanfic. I'm trying a slightly different style. ^^
Thank you all for hanging with me this long. ^_^ *gives you all brownies and cookies and such*